Bad news root crew, the DROID 3 has a locked bootloader

0.phoneArenaposted on07 Jul 2011, 18:55

The big question surrounding every Motorola handset these days is whether or not the bootloader will be locked, and confirmation has come for the DROID 3 that it does have a locked bootloader. Sorry modders...

Is anybody surprised? Then Motorola wonders why their devices aren't doing as expected, their stupid decisions scare potential customers away to companies that have better reputation, ahem, HTC, and their bottom line piss their investors.

Sniggly, HTC has announced that they are making ALL of their future phones with unlocked bootloaders. They actually stated pride in developers and their desire to make phones that encourage the unlocking. If I am not mistaken, I think that the Incredible 2 is an example of this. They have always been root-friendly. What is interesting is back some months ago, Motorola commented that they were actually not going to unlock their bootloader and basically told customers to suck it. Goldeneye is definitely right about their stupid decisions, especially since they are suddenly going back on that now.

Motorola came out and made known that they were happily going to keep their bootloaders unlocked in the future just like HTC did after they did a poll on Facebook to see what people would like to see on future Motorola devices. updates will come to unlock the bootloaders starting with the Atrix.

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